selected scholarly activity
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conferences
- PP57 Indicators for avoidable emergency medical service calls: mapping of paramedic clinical impression codes to ambulatory care sensitive conditions and mental health conditions in the UK and Canada. 999 EMS Research Forum 2023 meeting abstracts. A23.3-A24. 2023
- A Community Health and Wellness Pilot in a Subsidised Seniors’ Apartment Building: Chap-Ems. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. S327-S328. 2013
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journal articles
- Post-Pandemic Growth in 9-1-1 Paramedic Calls and Emergency Department Transports Surpasses Pre-Pandemic Rates in the COVID-19 Era: Implications for Paramedic Resource Planning. Prehospital Emergency Care. 29:1-8. 2025
- Effectiveness of the community paramedicine at home (CP@home) program for frequent users of emergency medical services in Ontario: a randomized controlled trial.. BMC Health Services Research. 24:1462. 2024
- Ambulance Services Attendance for Mental Health and Overdose Before and During COVID-19 in Canada and the United Kingdom: Interrupted Time Series Study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 10:e46029-e46029. 2024
- Neighborhood socioeconomic factors and characteristics correlated with avoidable emergency department visits: A spatial analysis of a Canadian academic hospital.. PLoS ONE. 19:e0311575. 2024
- Development of indicators for avoidable emergency medical service calls by mapping paramedic clinical impression codes to ambulatory care sensitive conditions and mental health conditions in the UK and Canada. BMJ Open. 13:e073520-e073520. 2023
- Paramedics’ perspectives of the community paramedic role in Ontario. International Paramedic Practice. 13:18-25. 2023
- Paramedics’ perspectives of the community paramedic role in Ontario, Canada. Journal of Paramedic Practice: the clinical monthly for emergency care professionals. 14:464-471. 2022
- Paramedics assessing patients with complex comorbidities in community settings: results from the CARPE study. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 23:828-836. 2021
- Pragmatic Strategy Empowering Paramedics to Assess Low-Risk Trauma Patients With the Canadian C-Spine Rule and Selectively Transport Them Without Immobilization: Protocol for a Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial. JMIR Research Protocols. 9:e16966-e16966. 2020
- Understanding Why Frequent Users of EMS Call 9-1-1: A Grounded Theory Study. Health Promotion Practice. 21:440-447. 2020
- Health Sector responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Canada – January to May 2020. Zeszyty Naukowe Ochrony Zdrowia. Zdrowie Publiczne i Zarzadzanie. 18:106-120. 2020
- Rationale and methods of an Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the Community Paramedicine at Home (CP@home) program for frequent users of emergency medical services in multiple Ontario regions: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 20:75. 2019
- Social factors in frequent callers: a description of isolation, poverty and quality of life in those calling emergency medical services frequently. BMC International Health and Human Rights. 19:684. 2019
- What do community paramedics assess? An environmental scan and content analysis of patient assessment in community paramedicine. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 21:766-775. 2019
- Reducing 9-1-1 Emergency Medical Service Calls By Implementing A Community Paramedicine Program For Vulnerable Older Adults In Public Housing In Canada: A Multi-Site Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial. Prehospital Emergency Care. 23:718-729. 2019
- P085: What do community paramedics assess? An environmental scan and content analysis of patient assessment in community paramedicine. Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine. 21:S94-S94. 2019
- Patient and paramedic engagement in prehospital emergency medicine research. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 190:S48-S49. 2018
- Evaluation of a community paramedicine health promotion and lifestyle risk assessment program for older adults who live in social housing: a cluster randomized trial. CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL. 190:E638-E647. 2018
- Implementing powered stretcher and load systems was a cost effective intervention to reduce the incidence rates of stretcher related injuries in a paramedic service. Applied Ergonomics. 62:34-42. 2017
- Effectiveness of a community paramedic-led health assessment and education initiative in a seniors’ residence building: the Community Health Assessment Program through Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS). BMC Emergency Medicine. 17:8. 2016
- Development of a community health and wellness pilot in a subsidised seniors’ apartment building in Hamilton, Ontario: Community Health Awareness Program delivered by Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS). BMC Research Notes. 8:113. 2015
- EXAMINING HYPERTENSION RATES, SEVERITY, KNOWLEDGE, AND MODIFIABLE RISK FACTORS IN OLDER ADULTS RESIDING IN ONTARIO SUBSIDISED HOUSING. Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 31:S50-S50. 2015
- Rationale and methods of a multicentre randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of a Community Health Assessment Programme with Emergency Medical Services (CHAP-EMS) implemented on residents aged 55 years and older in subsidised seniors’ housing buildings in Ontario, Canada. BMJ Open. 5:e008110-e008110. 2015
- Effectiveness of a Community Health and Wellness Pilot in a Subsidized Seniors' Apartment Building: CHAP-EMS. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 38:S72-S72. 2014
- A Community Health Awareness Program in Subsidized Seniors Homes: Using CANRISK as a Risk Assessment and Health Promotion Tool. Canadian Journal of Diabetes. 37:S75-S75. 2013
- A scoping study and qualitative assessment of care planning and case management in community paramedicine. Irish Journal of Paramedicine. 3.
- Reasons for Calling EMS. International Journal of Paramedicine. 29-39.
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preprints